Staff of the wheel/Ice comet quest in

[Jigga]

Quest is not classic and is currently in.

The famed Ice Comet spell.. It used to be very difficult to obtain due to research components being on Lady Vox and Lord Nagafen. There is a new Wheel Quest that allows you to get the two runes.
http://web.archive.org/web/200011180728/http://eq.castersrealm.com/spells/wizard/spelldescriptions.asp?SpellID=276

Quest was put in down the line, not sure when.

Ice comet required Vox/ Naggy raid

Remove quest and rewards handed out and any scrolls that might of been made already

[Darwoth]

yep, did not use to have every wizard one shotting folks as soon as they hit 49. at least make them work for it.

[Lovely]

There is actually a thread about this already at Blue99 somewhere and GM's decided to put the quest in Classic cuz that's what they did on live.

Ya'll SCURRED?!?!

[Cwall]

look, someone defending something that shouldn't be in because it would directly benefit them

except there isn't actually any reasoning

devs, listen to lovely, this guy's onto something

[Szeth]

Look, someone opposing something that shouldn't be in because it would directly nuke the fuck out of him

Except he's mad.

Dev's do what you want because it's your playground. Thanks

[skorge]

Awww good ol Graffe's Wizard Compilation (http://www.graffe.com/graffe1.0/)! A website designed for the classic EQ wizards out there. You can't argue against this Lovely. Looks like you will have to wait another 2+ months before you get your Ice Comet. Look at the 07/99 notes:

July 27, 1999 - 5:15pm PST
New server and client updates that are of importance to Wizards:

-The Fear Plane is now on-line.

-Players are no longer able to cast Shadowstep next to a zone point and teleport to an area past the teleport region, which is inaccessible to other characters.

-If the Eye of Zomm makes contact with a zone-point, the spell will immediately wear off.

-The Eye of Zomm now allows the caster to travel up and down.

-Rend (Wizard) is now available on certain Wizard vendors (lvl 49 spell).

-Wizard Portal and Evac spells have had their AoE radius range upped to match Druid Circle spells.

-A Quest for Ice Comet has been added.

-A Quest to help casters with research has been added. Good aligned races should check North Karana, while those with a more malign disposition should check South Ro.


What's interesting is the fact that many wizards thought Ice Comet would originally take 30 seconds to cast, lol..if you read the notes 08/99 you will see this. I'm so glad I was able to provide actual proof of the day Ice Comet was implemented to EQ. Keep it real guys. Keep it Classic!

[Brinkman]

-Rend (Wizard) is now available on certain Wizard vendors (lvl 49 spell).
!

Whats even more interesting is the fact they had neither Ice Comet OR Rend untill this patch.

Lets follow the timeline imo... Otherwise whats the point.

Lets please also not forget this is not only about the spell, but an easy as all get up 10int staff from the quest, that can be used before they can mem the spell.

And one more thing, please remove the spell " Harvest " from red99 and delete it from anyones spellbook who has it scribed, its not classic.

[Kelsar]

QQ

[Lovely]

Spells also did 100% damage in Classic, lets add that bro's

[nilbog]

Awww good ol Graffe's Wizard Compilation (http://www.graffe.com/graffe1.0/)! A website designed for the classic EQ wizards out there. You can't argue against this Lovely. Looks like you will have to wait another 2+ months before you get your Ice Comet. Look at the 07/99 notes:

July 27, 1999 - 5:15pm PST
New server and client updates that are of importance to Wizards:

-The Fear Plane is now on-line.

-Players are no longer able to cast Shadowstep next to a zone point and teleport to an area past the teleport region, which is inaccessible to other characters.

-If the Eye of Zomm makes contact with a zone-point, the spell will immediately wear off.

-The Eye of Zomm now allows the caster to travel up and down.

-Rend (Wizard) is now available on certain Wizard vendors (lvl 49 spell).

-Wizard Portal and Evac spells have had their AoE radius range upped to match Druid Circle spells.

-A Quest for Ice Comet has been added.

-A Quest to help casters with research has been added. Good aligned races should check North Karana, while those with a more malign disposition should check South Ro.


What's interesting is the fact that many wizards thought Ice Comet would originally take 30 seconds to cast, lol..if you read the notes 08/99 you will see this. I'm so glad I was able to provide actual proof of the day Ice Comet was implemented to EQ. Keep it real guys. Keep it Classic!

Those are some good patch notes.

So,

-fearplane is July 99
-rend is July 99
-ice comet/staff of the wheel quest is July 99

and is that last one..the gypsy/gls quest?

[Kelsar]

Those are some good patch notes.

So,

-fearplane is July 99
-rend is July 99
-ice comet/staff of the wheel quest is July 99

and is that last one..the gypsy/gls quest?

Yes.

[Jigga]

Nilbog are these staying in?

[Neon_Ravelights]

Well for those of us who actually went through the trouble to do the quest, we should keep our reward.

[Lazortag]

People who did the quest now should just get the reward later when the quest actually goes in. I think that's fairer than giving them something that isn't classic.

[Ssleeve]

Well for those of us who actually went through the trouble to do the quest, we should keep our reward.

No you shouldn't, don't do shit that isn't classic that you know will be removed lol.

[Motec]

No you shouldn't, don't do shit that isn't classic that you know will be removed lol.

Red 99 tears flowing.

[Lazortag]

The patch notes say that Rend was added to certain vendors, but it doesn't say that Rend didn't exist prior to the patch. Wouldn't that imply it existed before, but was just researchable? It seems weird (as Lovely pointed out in another thread) that Mages would have a better level 49 nuke in classic than wizards. I couldn't find any pages from 1999 about Rend so this is just speculation.

edit: also, it could just be implying that it was sold by only a few vendors, and that they just added it to more vendors. I think it's quite a leap to think that Rend at one point didn't exist.

[Lovely]

The patch notes say that Rend was added to certain vendors, but it doesn't say that Rend didn't exist prior to the patch. Wouldn't that imply it existed before, but was just researchable? It seems weird (as Lovely pointed out in another thread) that Mages would have a better level 49 nuke in classic than wizards. I couldn't find any pages from 1999 about Rend so this is just speculation.

edit: also, it could just be implying that it was sold by only a few vendors, and that they just added it to more vendors. I think it's quite a leap to think that Rend at one point didn't exist.

You are correct - You could only buy Rend from Erudin (just like it is now on blue99/red99. So they added it to more vendors. Rend was always in the game.